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Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. cursed at any personnel who would require passport renewal applicants to bring copies of their birth certificate, raising concerns about how he uses language in social media.

A Twitter user on February 18, Monday asked Locsin if birth certificates are required in passport renewals following the data controversy that hounded the agency on January 2019.

The Philippines’ chief diplomat threatened to “f*cking kill” whoever will ask for birth certificates during the passport renewal process.

Hindi. Putangina. Not for passport renewal. If anyone asks you, tell me who and I will fucking kill him/her. https://t.co/eumJnUPceN

An online lifestyle and features website previously published an article that touched on how Locsin replies to social media users with words such as “hijo de p*ta,” “f*ck face” and “fat b*tch.”

He was also criticized for using the word “bakla” as an insult despite supposedly supporting same-sex marriage.

Verbal abuse, according to the director of the Brogaard Lab for Multisensory Research at the University of Miami, is when someone attacks another person using words “as a weapon.”

“It can take a variety of forms ranging from loud rants to passive-aggressive remarks,” neuroscientist Berit Brogaard said.

Healthline additionally noted that verbal abuse is when “someone repeatedly uses words to demean, frighten, or control” a person.

They enumerated that if the words include name-calling and are intended to condescend, criticize, degrade, manipulate, accuse, isolate, gaslight and threaten a person, it is considered verbally abusive.